Gartner Says 2011 Will Be the Year of Platform as a Service

All the leading enterprise software vendors, as well as large

cloud specialists, will introduce new platform-as-a-service

(PaaS) offerings this year, making 2011 the year of

PaaS, according to Gartner. These leading vendors are expected

to deliver new or strongly expanded PaaS service offerings and cloud-enabled application infrastructure products.'By the end of 2011, the battle for leadership in PaaS and the key PaaS segments will engulf the

software industry,' said Yefim Natis, vice president and distinguished

analyst at Gartner.